Shoe for horses and like animals



March 26, 11935. E. EICHENAUER SHOE FOR HORSES AND LIKE ANIMALS Filed Feb. 24, 1934 In venfor' Emil El clnnAuer Maia ATTORNFYS Patented Mar. 26, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFlE I a v 1,995,844 I shop FOE, non-sits AND LinEAmMALs Emil Eichenauer, Tonisheide, Germany Application February 24, 1934, Serial No. 712,692

- In Germany February 23, 1933 I 8 Claims.

This invention relates to cushion horseshoes of the kind comprising a metal frame to which a resilient tread is anchored. In this connection frames of inverted channel form having a premoulded rubber tread part mechanically fixed thereto are known; also a shoe having a pair of spaced metal plates surrounded by rubber moulded on to the plates is known.

The object of this invention is to provide a generally improved cushion type of horseshoe.

In this'way, not only is a better anchorage for the elastic material obtained, but also the manufacture of such shoes is rendered considerably more simple than heretofore, the provision of special stays or like members being for instance rendered unnecessary. The elastic mass mould-- ed on the frame or filler passes through the apertures or perforations in the latter and penetrates into the box-like part and thus anchors itself therein behind the lower walls of the frame or filler. As it does not matter if the apertures or perforations are small, it is quite permissible to make the anchorage surfaces as large as possible.

By means of the present invention, not only is a better anchorage of the resilient mass and a simplified construction of the shoe obtained, but also the box-like construction of the metal frame or filler gives a. substantially greater strength to the shoe, although theframe can be bent, flanged or otherwise adapted to the shape of the hoof which is to be shod.

The box-like cross-section of the frame can be produced in various ways, for example, by setting two metals of U shaped profile one within the other. It is preferable, however, to employ metal or box-like cross-section as the metal frame or filler.

The said apertures or perforations are disposed directly in alignment with the nails passing through the nail holes of the shoe, so that no separate holes are required for these nails, which would weaken the metal part.

In order that the invention may be clearly understood and readily carried into practice, I have appended hereto one sheet of drawings, in which .two embodiments of the invention are illustrated by way of example, and in which:-

Figure 1 is an inverted plan view of the metal part of a horseshoe constructed according to this invention,

Figure 2 is a section on line 11-11 of Figure 1, but showing the elastic or resilient substance moulded in position,

Figure 3 is a section along the line IIIIII of (C1. NBS-12) Figure 1, likewise showing the elastic or resilient substance moulded in position,

Figure 4 is a section similar to that shown in Figure 2. but shows a modified construction in which the metal part of the shoe is formed in two 5 parts, and

Figure 5 is a section similar to Figure 3, but illustrates the form of device shown in Figure 4.

The metal frame or filler a of the shoe is of tubular or box-like cross-section as shown in Figure 3, so that an interiorspace or hollow b is formed which is surrounded by the walls c, d, e and f. The hoof rests directly on the wall d, whilst the resilient or elastic material 9 is moulded on the wall f and passes through apertures 15 h located on this lower wall into the interior space 1). Inside the frame or filler a the resilient material (preferably a rubber composition) forms a continuous anchoring bandv extending completely around the shoe and similarly a continuous tread surface which may be patterned is likewise formed. Thus the elastic material 9 anchors itself in the space 2) against all the walls thereof, particularly against and under the wall 11.

The apertures h lie directly in alignment with holes 2' for hoof nails is passing therethrough.

When the frame consists of two parts, as for example as shown in Figures 4 and 5, an inner .U-shaped part is provided with the walls m and n, and an outer and likewise but inverted U-shaped part is provided with the walls d, c and e. The two U-shaped profiled members are inserted one within the other to form a tubular member of box-like cross-section. The two parts are connected together by means of lugs Z on the walls 0 and e and which engage around the walls 'm and n of the inner part at the places where occur the apertures h provided in the wall of f of the said inner part.

What I claim is:-

1. In a shoe, for horses and like animals, of the kind having a resilient tread moulded thereon, a rigid continuously tubular frame of horseshoe shape and having in its under wall a series of apertures adapted for the passage of the anchoring portion of the resilient tread to the interior of the tubular frame, and said tubular frame comprising two members of continuous channel form secured together one within the other in an opposed manner.

2. A shoe, for horses and like animals, of the kind having a resilient tread anchored thereto, comprising a rigid continuously tubular frame of horseshoe shape having in its under wall a plurality of apertures and a resilient tread moulded on to the underside of said frame and passing through the said apertures therein to the interior of the frame, the said resilient material engaging behind the material of said lower frame wall between the said apertures therein, and said frame consisting of two continuous channel members secured together in an opposed manner one inside the other.

3. A shoe, for horses and like animals, of the kind having a resilient tread moulded thereon, comprising a metal frame of continuously hollow rectangular cross-section and having in plan a horseshoe shape, such frame being formed by an upper member of inverted U shaped cross-section and a lower member of U shaped cross-section fitting into the upper member, the under wall of said lower member being apertured, and the two members being secured together by lugs on the upper member engaging and clamping the edge walls of the lower member where said apertures occur, and a resilient tread moulded on to the lower wall of said frame, passing into and along the interior of the latter, and engaging the inner side of said lower apertured wall.

4. A shoe for horses and like animals consisting of a horseshoe shaped metal frame of continuous hollow rectangular closed box form in cross-section, the lower side of the frame being flush with the lower edges of the inner and outer side walls of the frame each of which Walls is continuous throughout its length, the said lower Wall being provided with spaced apertures, an elastic mass moulded on to the underside of the frame, part of said mass extending through said spaced apertures into and along the interior of the frame and the remainder of the said mass being on the underside of the frame and forming a tread, the part of the elastic mass within the frame forming an anchorage part integral with the tread part which is elastic throughout and over the whole tread surface of the shoe.

5. A shoe for horses and like animals, of the kind having a resilient tread anchored thereto, comprising a rigid metal frame of horseshoe shape, tubular throughout, having upper and lower walls and inner and outer continuous side walls, said lower wall being flush with the lower edges of said inner and outer continuous side walls, said lower wall being provided with a series of spaced apertures adapted for the passage of the anchoring portion of the resilient tread to the interior of the tubular frame, the tread surface of the shoe being entirely resilient and non-metallic throughout.

6. A shoe for horses and like animals, of the kind having a resilient tread moulded thereon, consisting of a metal horseshoe shaped metal frame of hollow closed rectangular cross-section having continuous inner and outer edge walls and a continuous upper wall, and such frame having in its lower fixed wall a plurality of spaced apertures, a continuous resilient and non-metal tread on the underside of the lower wall of said frame and flush at its inner and outer edges with the inner and outer edge walls respectively of the frame, a continuous anchorage part within said frame and connection parts extending through said apertures and from said tread to the said anchorage part, and the latter, the tread, and the connecting parts being all formed of the same kind of resilient material and moulded integrally with one another on the finished metal frame.

7. A shoe for horses and the like animals consisting of a horseshoe shaped metal frame member of inverted U-shaped cross-section which is adapted to be nailed to the hoof of an animal, and a tread of elastic material located in the space formed by the side limbs and top of said inverted U-shaped member, the said tread projecting beyond those edges of the inner and outer side walls of the frame member remote from the top of the latter and the said edges being connected together by fixed spaced rigid and continuous cross members which pass completely and transversely through the said elastic material.

8. A shoe for horses and the like animals consisting of a horseshoe shaped metal frame member of inverted U-shaped cross-section which is adapted to be nailed to the hoof of an animal, and a tread of elastic material located in the space formed by the side limbs and top of said inverted U-shaped member, the said tread projecting beyond those edges of the inner and outer side walls of the frame member remote from the top of the latter, said edges of the inner and outer side walls of the frame member being connected together by a rigid plate extending continuously between the said walls and provided longitudinal- 1y with spaced apertures forming a plurality of cross bars which pass through said elastic material,

EMIL EICHENAUER. 

